The robotics industry is about to go through the... same shift software did 10 years ago. Here's why the next billion-dollar robotics company will be built by a creator — not a corporation 👇 1/ Corporate robotics requires millions in capital, years of R&D, and a massive team just to ship a product. Creators with the right platform can prototype an idea in weeks, validate with real customers, and iterate fast. 2/ This isn't theory. It's the same pattern we saw with: GitHub → software developers App Store → mobile creators YouTube → video creators Every major platform shift minted a new class of independent builders. Robotics is next. 3/ The barrier isn't talent. There are brilliant engineers everywhere — Ohio, Lagos, Mumbai, Berlin. The barrier is access. Access to tools, infrastructure, and a platform that lets them build and monetize. 4/ That's exactly what $ROBA is building — an open platform where creators build, train, share, and monetize robotic behaviors. No corporate gatekeepers. No vendor lock-in. Just creators owning their innovations. Join the revolution today.show more

Engineers: “This is a breakthrough in soft robotics.” Twitter:... “Bro built an AI vibrator.” 🤦‍♂️ Researchers at the University of Southern Denmark created a soft robot that moves by inflating and contracting its body like a worm. Jokes aside… robots like this could actually be useful for rescue missions and environments where traditional robots fail. But let’s be honest: you already know what most comment sections are going to talk about 💀 🎥 Media: SDU Soft Robotics ⚠️ This content is shared for informational purposes only. CTO Robotics Media is a media platform and does not own or develop the technology shown. Credit belongs to the original creators.show more

NEW: OF says they are banning the video of... one of their creators having s*x with 1057 men, meaning the creator bedded over 1000 men for no reason. Lmao. L of the year award goes to this woman. The p*rn platform says they couldn't verify the ages of all 1057 guys. The creator was planning on using the footage to promote her subscription. "OF is a platform designed for creators who have completed our comprehensive onboarding process and choose to monetize their content," the platform said to the Daily Mail. "To keep our community safe, OF also verifies the age, identity, and consent of all parties featured in explicit content on OF." "We do not allow a large number of non-OF creators to be featured on an account even where release forms have been provided."show more

China is scaling humanoid robotics at an insane speed.... Super realistic robots from Ex-Robots are now reportedly entering mass production 🤖 - Not prototypes. - Not lab experiments. - Actual production. The biggest shift happening in robotics isn’t just intelligence anymore. It’s making robots look and behave socially acceptable around humans. And honestly… we’re reaching the point where some people may not immediately realize they’re talking to a robot. Exciting future or uncomfortable future? Media : Ex-Robots ⚠️ This content is shared for informational purposes only. CTO Robotics Media is a media platform and does not own or develop the technology shown. Credit belongs to the original creators.show more

Today we're launching a new experiment. Over the next... 30 days, Dave will become one of the internet's most recognizable AI creators. Dave is just a potato. That's the point. We want to demonstrate that something as simple as a potato can become a global media personality with the right AI workflows, creative direction, and distribution strategy. We'll launch one platform at a time, gradually increasing the level of AI automation and sophistication while comparing the results. Day 1: X - simple reactions, almost no AI. Day 2: Instagram. Day 3: TikTok. Day 4: YouTube. Day 5: Threads. Everything is built almost entirely with open-source models in ComfyUI. Follow Dave:show more

I spent a month in Shenzhen visiting factories and... robotics companies, and the contrast with the U.S. was striking. While Figure and Boston Dynamics hide their humanoids behind closed doors, Chinese companies have massive showrooms open to the public. But what really stood out wasn't just the transparency, it was how good they are at selling. Take UBTech: they've already sold 1,200 humanoid units at $200k each to factories. And here's the kicker, these robots aren't even that useful yet. They can only pick up and drop boxes at 1/10th the speed of a human, and factories still need to hire system integrators to train them for specific tasks. My theory is that these factories are terrified of getting left behind in the robotics/AI wave. They're investing in new tech not because it's ready, but because they can't afford to wait. The second surprise was the breadth of their robotics portfolio. These companies aren't just building humanoids, they're deploying service robots everywhere: restaurants, hotels, apartments. Consumer robots are cleaning houses, pools, pet waste, dishes. They're covering the entire spectrum. But the education piece shocked me most. I picked up what I thought was a high school or college robotics textbook, it was for primary school. The government mandated AI and robotics education starting in elementary school. Almost every single school in China now has AI and robotics curriculum, complete with education robots so kids can learn by building. They're creating a generation that grows up fluent in robotics and AI. China owns the supply chain and the hardware stack. But here's what I think people are missing: the race isn't just about who can build robots faster or cheaper. The U.S. advantage has always been in the layer between hardware and human, the interaction design, the software intelligence, the intuitive interfaces that make complex technology feel natural. China is building the physical infrastructure, but they're also learning fast. Every deployed service robot, every classroom full of kids building with education kits, every factory running humanoids, that's all data collection at scale. The window for the U.S. to establish its wedge is narrowing. It's not enough to be better at AI or software anymore. We need to be building the integration layer, the intelligence that makes physical AI actually useful, not just impressive in a showroom. Because right now, China isn't just manufacturing robots. They're manufacturing a robotics-native culture, and that might be the most defensible moat of all.show more

SoftBank is reportedly in early talks to back a... massive $800M funding round for Munich-based Agile Robots, with a contribution of over $ 300M. The move signals a major escalation in Masayoshi Son's "brains and bodies" strategy to dominate physical AI infrastructure. Why this matters for the robotics industry: 🤖 The Flywheel: Agile Robots isn't just hardware. Founded by German Aerospace Center (DLR) alumni, they vertically integrate AI software with humanoids, warehouse automation, and robotic arms. 🧠 Frontier Ecosystems: Agile ONE was recently named a founding member of NVIDIA’s Cosmos Coalition and is deep in a research partnership with Google DeepMind to bring Gemini to the factory floor. 💰 The Capital Race: Global investment in robotics more than tripled in 2025. SoftBank is pairing this hardware play with its recent $1.4B investment in Skild AI and its $5.4B acquisition of ABB Robotics. While both companies have declined to comment on the early-stage talks, the deal highlights a furious shift toward deploying foundational AI in physical manufacturing and logistics.show more

This drone doesn’t just carry objects it grabs them.... 🤯 Meet Ring-Rotor, a retractable quadrotor developed by researchers at Zhejiang University. Instead of using a robotic arm, the drone changes its shape and surrounds the object, allowing it to grasp and transport different payloads in mid-air. The frame can also shrink by about 31%, helping it pass through tighter spaces. No hook. No cable. No external gripper. The drone itself becomes the gripper. 🎥 Media: Yuze Wu , Fei Gao & Zhejiang University ⚠️ This content is shared for informational purposes only. CTO Robotics Media is a media platform and does not own or develop the technology shown. Credit belongs to the original creators. #Robotics #DroneTechnology #AerialRobotics #AerialManipulation #Automation #Engineering #Innovation #FutureTechshow more

Spectre AI Market Intelligence Platform Beta officially launches on... 28.05.2026. All registered Beta users will receive platform access on this day. This marks our first live product iteration with real users - focused on community feedback, platform performance, user experience, and how people actually use market intelligence in real trading and research environments. The goal of this Beta is simple: build alongside the community, improve fast, and shape the platform around real-world usage. For security reasons, no public access links will be posted. Access will be distributed directly to approved Beta users. A major milestone for Spectre AI and the beginning of a much bigger public rollout ahead. $SPECTREshow more

The next phase of AI video needs infrastructure, not... more tools.. This isn’t just a product update. It’s a new category. Topview 4.0 is the world’s first AI video collaboration board, built for how creators and teams actually work. One shared workspace to create, review, and iterate together without switching tools. Prompt → Image → Video → Avatar in a single flow. Real-time collaboration. All top image and video models in one place. Creator-friendly pricing, cheaper than official APIs. If AI video is part of your workflow, this is the board it belongs on. TopviewAIshow more

For years, it’s been the same story… Some people... grow. Some people miss the opportunities. Brolyz And most of the time, the problem isn’t money. The real problem is not being in the right place with the right people. Imagine a space where… Traders, investors, creators, and entrepreneurs can all meet in one place. A place where ideas are shared, where people build international connections, and where communities grow together. It feels like a social platform… but it also brings trade, opportunities, and collaboration into one ecosystem. And this is only the beginning. An #NFT marketplace is coming soon. A Swap feature is on the way. And the community will be rewarded with exciting upcoming airdrops. Some people have already started noticing it. It’s called Brolyz. Maybe it’s time to stop building alone and start connecting with the world. 👀 Welcome to #Brolyz:show more

Seedance 2.0 isn’t untouchable anymore 👀 Happy Horse 1.0... introduces a new class of generation that feels faster, more dynamic, and unexpectedly competitive in ways that are hard to ignore 🐎 EARLY ACCESS is now live on Vadoo AI, with the first set of creators already exploring what it can do 🚀 We’re now extending access to a select group of 100 additional creators To request access: ⭐ Comment “happy” ⭐ Retweet this post 100 creators will be granted access today 🎯show more

Something big is happening in robotics - and it’s... hiding in plain sight. This post is not about dancing robots but in the data that powers them. Open robotics datasets have exploded this year, turning the field into a more scalable and collaborative ecosystem. In just two years, Hugging Face datasets grew from 11k to over 600k - and robotics is by far the fastest-growing segment. We went from 1k robotics datasets in 2024 to 27k in 2025! For comparison, text generation, the second-largest category, has only around 5k datasets in 2025. That gap is massive. Open datasets are important because robotics lives and dies by real-world robot data - video, actions, sensors, failures. By making this data easy to upload, reuse, and benchmark, researchers, startups, and large players are now releasing real-robot datasets that would have stayed locked inside labs just a few years ago. Major contributors include NVIDIA, LeRobot initiative, and a rapidly growing maker community. This surge is also enabled by cheaper video storage, better tooling, and an open-source AI culture now spilling into the physical world. And it really matters: open robotics data dramatically lowers entry barriers, accelerates learning-by-doing, and speeds up progress toward generalist and humanoid robots. Robotics won’t scale through hardware alone - but to a large extent through shared data. Viz below from AI World - link to the story and more viz/filters in comment.show more

🚨 BREAKING: Walden Robotics has just come out of... stealth with $300 million in funding and a $1.1 billion valuation. Another unicorn in the robotics space. 🦄 Just 6 months after incubation. The company was spun out of Toyota's robotics research lab by co-founder Russ Tedrake, a former Toyota Research Institute executive and MIT professor who taught a course on robotic legs. The seed round was co-led by Deviation Capital and Toyota, with participation from: NVIDIA, Boeing, Samsung Ventures, CoreWeave Ventures and AE Ventures. The robot is already working. A pilot is live at a North American Toyota factory where a Walden humanoid is pulling eight-hour shifts alongside human workers, loading and unloading car parts, cleaning machinery, kitting for assembly. A shift. Every day. Walden builds its own hardware, software and AI models, designed to continuously learn and improve in real production environments. Tedrake's words on the opportunity are worth noting: "Everyone recognises the magnitude of the opportunity and the technology feels ready, but success is not assured. You have to think through the business case, the unit economics, and how to marry the best of manufacturing and logistics with disruptive AI technology." Rare honesty in a space full of hype. The race to own that market is accelerating every single week. 🤖 Great story by Bloomberg here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more

Astra Nova x Alibaba Cloud 🤝 We’re fired up... to officially announce our collaboration with Cloudician leveraging Alibaba Cloud, a global leader in AI and Cloud innovation — and the technical infrastructure backbone of our upcoming ecosystem product, TokenPlay.ai 🔥 Here’s what this power combo brings: ⚡ No-code game dev with Alibaba Cloud’s PAI platform ⚡ Hyper-intelligent gameplay powered by Qwen AI ⚡ AI-fueled engagement for Web3 creators This isn't another launch, this marks a bold step forward in building-next generation interactive worlds. is the biggest product we’ve ever built. Stay tuned — a new era is coming soon. 👀show more

🚨#BREAKING: X has announced a major change to its... creator payout program for this cycle They announced that they are testing new tools to better identify who actually created original content, and will start giving a portion of the revenue directly to those creators X says reposts and commentary will still be an important part of the platform, but the goal now is to reward people who create original, high-quality content that adds real value to the timeline In simple terms, they want to pay the people who make the content, not just the accounts that help it go viral The company says this change will help improve the overall quality of content on X and that the revenue-sharing program will continue to evolve to encourage creators to post their best workshow more

CONTENT CREATORS I’ve been working with HotDrop to refine... an app that consolidates all your platforms into one space. AND IT’S LIVE AND WORKING Check it out, you can have a “Circle” which is our version of Discord servers. But notice all of your content is right there so your community never misses anything you post on any platform. And HotDrop does that work for you. If someone had a two-year sub badge and a moderator sword on your Twitch, then it shows up on their name in your Circle automatically. We also have a feed with no algorithm trying to analyze you. We wanted to replicate the old Destiny community days of social media back in D1. The goal is to create a space just for content creators and their communities. Best part is that we generate an invite link to your Circle so all you have to do is copy and paste it into a Twitch command, a video description, a pinned comment. And your community can join in a click. We use Twitch and YouTube logins so bots don’t spam accounts here either. And if your goal is to troll, your whole YT or Twitch account gets banned from the platform so there’s higher risk to being a jerk. All we need now is creators to try it out, give us feedback, and we’ll keep refining the platform. But it will be the best place to foster a community. Check it out on Apple and Android.show more

Elon Musk gave the entire entertainment industry its expiration... date, and he is the one building the thing that kills it. Musk: “My guess is that we see the first compelling half hour, pure AI show next year.” Next year. A complete show generated entirely by AI. No writers. No actors. No cameras. No sets. No crew. No studio. Just a prompt and enough compute to render a reality that never physically existed. And shows are the easy part. Musk: “I say probably we’re maybe three years away from AI does the whole video game.” A show plays the same way every time. A game has to generate a living world that reacts to every decision in real time across every single frame. That is a fundamentally harder class of problem. And Musk put three years on it. Right now a single AAA title takes seven years and half a billion dollars across thousands of engineers and artists just to ship it. Musk is describing a world where one person types a paragraph and gets something comparable. The entire value proposition of a multi-billion dollar industry lives inside that gap. And it closes in thirty-six months. But the prediction is not the story. The person making it is. This is not an analyst speculating from the sidelines. This is the man building the largest AI compute clusters on the planet. The man who built xAI from zero in under two years. The man stacking hundreds of thousands of GPUs into facilities designed to do exactly what he is describing. When Musk says three years, he is not guessing about what someone else might eventually ship. He is reading you a delivery date off his own roadmap. Every media company on Earth is valued on a single assumption. That quality content is expensive and difficult to produce at scale. That one assumption is the structural foundation underneath every studio, every network, and every publisher in existence. Musk is dismantling it with raw compute. The studios still parading thousand-person production teams are not demonstrating strength. They are advertising the exact cost structure that one person with a prompt and a GPU allocation is about to make irrelevant. And it does not stop at entertainment. If AI can generate an interactive world that responds to human input in real time, it can generate anything. Advertising. Architecture. Training simulations. Product design. Every industry built on humans manually constructing visual experiences frame by frame is sitting on the same countdown Musk just read out loud. Now zoom out. Because this is not just an industry story. For the entire history of human civilization, the distance between imagining a world and actually creating one required thousands of people, millions of hours, and billions of dollars. That distance built Hollywood. That distance built the gaming industry. That distance made content scarce and studios powerful. Musk is collapsing that distance to zero. When the gap between imagining something and it existing disappears, every business model built on the difficulty of creation disappears with it. That is not disruption. That is a full inversion of how human beings create. Musk did not make a casual prediction on that podcast. He told you what he is building. He told you the timeline. And he told you which industries do not survive it. The entertainment industry is still debating whether this future is real. Musk is not part of that debate. He is building. And he just told you the delivery date.show more

This is the kind of project that quietly changes... an industry. Instead of using traditional slicers, this creator built an app that converts hand-drawn curves directly into printable G-code for spiral vase mode prints. App → G-code → Print. - No complicated workflow. - No heavy setup. - Just turning ideas into physical objects almost instantly. The interesting part isn’t just the print quality. It’s how tools are becoming so simple that more people can create complex things without needing advanced technical knowledge. Would tools like this make 3D printing finally mainstream? 🎥 Media: ( Instagram ) ⚠️ This content is shared for informational purposes only. CTO Robotics Media is a media platform and does not own or develop the technology shown. Credit belongs to the original creators.show more

Today we are launching Kaito Studio beta. Starting today,... we’re moving to a new model where brands and creators can more intentionally match based on mutual fit, selection, and expectations - launching with 16 partners, with more in the pipeline as details are finalized. Since launching our waitlist in February, a rapidly growing network of creators has joined Kaito Studio, representing 80 million collective followers and $14 billion in follower net worth. These creators span 118 countries, with English-focused creators making up the largest segment, and China and Korea representing the largest country cohorts. Around 30% have also joined with TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube accounts, positioning them to bring content cross-platform. From here, Kaito Studio will focus on solving three main problems, one step at a time: - Ambassador and creator matching - helping brands find the right ambassadors or creators based on data, audience, and subject alignment - Performance attribution - measuring real impact across influence, mindshare, and conversion - End-to-end orchestration - powering a repeatable workflow from creator matching and campaign execution to measurement, evaluation, and optimization We will ramp up opportunities over the coming weeks as more brands finalize their profiles and program details. As we continue building more features for the GenAI and agentic ecosystem, stay tuned for more opportunities ahead.show more